Tandleman's Beer Blog

One of the things I quite like about Wetherspoon is that in the main they name their pubs after some local aspect.  In the case of my adopt...

As part of my "job" as local CAMRA Chairman, I like to keep in touch with my local publicans.  It makes us relevant and talkin...

It is a rich seam this craft. I haven't finished mining it yet, but one thing is for sure, I'm slowly but surely coming round to a ...

I was rather intrigued by the piece yesterday on Boak and Bailey about the post craft world. It got me thinking that perhaps there isn...

Remember that debate about what craft beer is?  Course you do, it was rather popular until we all more or less gave up on it as every time ...

My good friend John has pointed out that my arithmetic was wrong in my previous piece here about Wetherspoons. In that article I managed ...

Is pale beer losing its appeal?  We all probably know people that prefer dark beers, or even brown beers, but is this affecting beer sa...

How many eggs do JD Wetherspoon sell a year? 39 million.  "That's a lot of eggs" I think.  The statistics roll on.  525...

London, especially the East End, is endlessly interesting to me.  It has been hugely knocked about, gentrified and changed by bombing, demo...

The Bermonsey Beer Mile or rather, the Bermonsey Beer Mile and a Half and a Bit, but that hardly trips off the tongue. Bermondsey Beer Mile...

I like wedge shaped pubs.  There is just something about them, the way they sit astride two roads with a "Look at me, aren't I ...

When I was younger pubs were usually pretty busy, though very rarely so busy that you couldn't get in the door, or if you did, felt com...

I'm still on my "Pubs near my London flat" theme. There's one very near indeed that I had (until yesterday) never been i...

From time to time I tell you about the many pubs local to me here in London. There's good and bad, with one or two where I really like ...

I'm in London and the sun is shining. Hooray. We decided last night to have a quick wander out. I kind of regard arrival here as being ...